[Trending News] Real Madrid – Atlético: a tense derby for the leadership

The leadership is at stake in the tense Real Madrid-Atlético this Saturday (21.00, Movistar), with the crouching Barcelona behind the hedge, four points from the whites and three of the rojiblancos before going this Sunday to Pizjuán. The previous derby passed in an poisoned climate on account of the members, after the merengue club denounced the existence of a “completely discredited arbitration system” and “corrupted from within”, in a letter found by the replica, among others, among others, among others, of Atlético, who accused him of “pressing” and “spreading delusions.” Both coaches tried this Friday to reduce stress – “I am centered on the game,” insisted Diego Pablo Simeone – although Carlo Ancelotti did leave a message: “We have asked to improve a system with which, so I hear, nobody is happy . We are not and others either because they think it favors us. And when Madrid wants to change the system, everyone is against. It surprises me, ”the Italian slipped, who also responded to Javier Tebas:“ Here [en el club] No one has lost their heads. ”

White starts at the helm of the table and a triumph would leave Atlético two distance games, however, the season's trajectory presses the premises in this clash. Real Madrid still look for their best version and have not won in any large appointment (thrashed in the two classics, losses in Liverpool and Bilbao, and against Milan, and draw in the metropolitan), while the rojiblancos made weeks that reached stability in The game and the new pieces settled to Simeone's demands.

The appointment, and next Tuesday in Manchester against City, is presented as a key exam for Madrid, a team with three strikers (Vinicius, Mbappé and Rodrygo) plus a midfielder (Bellingham) that drags difficulties confessed to having the famous Balance and defensive commitment. “The four in front have put 60 goals, more or less [59]. They have made it fantastic. And the team also needs the help at the defensive level [en referencia los atacantes]”Ancelotti insisted, who highlighted with a lot from Tchouameni and sometimes Valverde. For this Saturday, he recovers Camavinga and at Atlético the only decline is the sanctioned Le Normand.

Madrid would like to run, but maybe it is impossible for the athletic shell, which does expect to threaten the counter and punish the until now unstable white protection shield. The rojiblancos have defeated poster rivals (Athletic, PSG and Barcelona), and have made it grabbed to their classic recipe: trench and counterattack. “Of course we are going by bus, obvious,” Simeone joked about his approach. More serious, he said he expects a strong start from Madrid, from which he highlighted the “great individualities.” Koke or Pablo Barrios (leaves an injury) in the middle and the possibility of placing a rear of five are presented as the big doubts in a set that rides healthy in all competitions to the rhythm of Giuliano Simeone, Julián Álvarez, Rodrigo de Paul and Antoine Griezmann.

Recent history reinforces the rojiblancos (Madrid adds four derbis leaguers without winning and Atlétic Grade and with Ricardo de Burgos Bengoetxea in the VAR.